&Quote?

[stewey]

Just came back from the Jokes section, and there's a joke full of "&Quot"s. I realize it's supposed to be "&Quote", but why do many people do that. Don't most keyboards have quotation marks on them?.......Anyway, couldn't be bothered reading the joke.

[netibiza]

They probably do use the quotation marks, it's just that answerbank for some reason does" & quote". I've just used them there, lets see what happens.

[Louisa 69]

Yes i noticed that also, "it does get on your nerves".

[annie0000]

if you use quotation marks in a question it replaces them with "e - if you use it in an answer it doesn't.

[SpiderPig]

Yes, it's very annoying isn't it ?

I think it's something to do with this -

The " entity was mistakenly omitted from the HTML 3.2 specification. While use of " generates error reports when validating against 3.2, browsers have continued to recognize the entity and its use is generally safe (sticklers may wish to use " instead). The omission has been corrected in the HTML 4.0 specification.

I'll go and get a definitive answer from the Technology/Internet section.

[SpiderPig]

People can use the single quotation mark on the same key as the @.